Person
McKinlay, John (1819 - 1872)
- Born
- 16 August 1819
Sandbank, Argyll, Scotland - Died
- 17 January 1872
South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Explorer
Summary
John McKinlay was sent by the South Australian Government to help find the lost expedition party of Burke and Wills (16 August 1861). He and his party discovered the grave of one of the explorers, Charlie Gray. After learning of the fate of the rest of the party, McKinlay's team set off north. They were extremely lucky to survive the trip supplies ran out almost two months before they arrived on the Queensland coast in August 1862. This trip made McKinlay and his team only the second party to have successfully crossed Australia from south to north. In 1865 McKinlay was sent on an expedition to discover settlement sites in the southern and central Australia.
Details
Chronology
- 1882
- Taxonomy event - Collector of a syntype of Eucalyptus foelscheana F.Muell.
Archival resources
State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana
- John McKinlay - Records, 1861 - 1866, PRG 834; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Davis, J., Tracks of McKinlay and Party Across Australia (London: 1863). Details
- Threadgill, Bessie, South Australian land exploration, 1856 to 1880, 2 vols (Adelaide: Board of Governors of the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australi, 1922). Details
Book Sections
- 'McKinlay, John (1819-1872), explorer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), pp. 174-175. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050200b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Gibson, David, 'John McKinlay - "knight errant of explorers": an explorer's explorer?', Queensland history journal, 21 (8) (2012), 575-84. Details
- Harlow, Susan, 'John McKinlay: his significance as a Northern Territory explorer', Journal of Northern Territory History, 3 (1992), 55-65. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q955424. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/293939575. Details
- 'McKinlay, John (18190826-18721231)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1208694. Details
See also
- Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 8 May 2018
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